Shipping Frequency for Subscriptions

[greggc]

I don't see anyway of doing this, but are there any plans to allow the customer to choose how many days to ship. Such as ships every _ days?

[greggc]

I don't mean selecting from a dropdown menu but to actually input the amount of days to auto ship.

[Kent Multer]

How many different options do you need? It's possible to create subscription terms for 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, etc., or any other large set of intervals. If there are too many options, of course, the menu could become difficult to use; and if you need this feature for a lot of products, creating all the subscription terms would be somewhat tedious.

I can provide a module that will create new subscription terms on the fly when a customer picks an interval that isn't already set up for the product. If that's of interest, you can PM or email me to discuss it in detail.

[greggc]

Thanks for the reply Kent. Actually what I was looking for was for the customer to input the number of days they would prefer like they would in a quantity box. Not a predetermined number set by us.

[Kent Multer]

Dropdown menus are arguably more user-friendly than text boxes, because the shopper is less likely to enter the wrong number due to a typing error or a slip of the mouse. Also, with a text box, you need to have some validation code to make sure that the number isn't too large, too small, or invalid. With a dropdown menu, the shopper can only select a number that you permit.

Menu or text box, it's your call. Either way, the fundamental problem is that Miva Merchant is designed to only support subscription terms that are pre-defined by an admin user. There's no built-in way to have new terms created on the fly when shoppers request them.